I was reading about the airship to orbit idea, and how it is probably impossible. This got me to thinking, are there any materials like carbon nanotubes that...

MR/ MiSS * Al madinah international university which win dependence Malaysian Minist ry of Higher Education Malaysia (MOHE) and also winning the adoption of...

Go to my web site http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/ * Select "What's New" * Select entry for 12 October 2003 Best Wishes Sven

Good Morning, I would want to ask you if the ESA images coming from satellites are used also for militar scopes or just environment, who are the...

Is there some nice concise source for the ISPs of nuclear thermal rockets using various working fluids, like ammonia or methane? I thought I had a method of...

Are there any way for rockets to fly in space , other then throwing mass out in one direction and moving in other

Suppose you have a high-altitude rocket nozzle: It expands the flow to 1 psi at exit. Now suppose you want to light this thing off on the ground. You have...

I am very much a fan of O'Neill colonies, but have long believed they would be much easier if they were close to a carbonaceous asteroid rather than the moon. ...

Hello there everyone, I joined this competition callled The International Space Settlement Design Competition organized by Nasa. In the request for proposal...

Hi sci.space.tech It seems that nuclear power is useless for booster applications and it has forever been religated to upperstages. Propellant temperature...

If one was to be asked to design an UltraLight that would be able to fly on Mars, what would have to change? Would the wingspan have to change...

As everyone knows, in four days it will be the 100th anniversary of the Wright brother's first powered human flight. Tomorrow, however, will be a somewhat...

I had thought I remembered that the first posts in the then-brand-new sci.space reorg groups went out in early January 1994, but reviewing Google records found...

Here's a nice not-too-technical writeup on the business aspects of the space elevator. Link found as a footnote to Howard Tayler's Shlock Mercenary daily web...

Another form of fullerene material has been developed: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041022105021.htm Could graphene sheet-reinforced...

Hi all Is this significant at all? So far only the BBC is reporting it (as far as I can see). Amateur rocket fired into...

What was the total mass (w/ fuel) of the LEM, CM and SM? In other words, how much gross payload had the S-IVB put into translunar injection when it separated?...

Hi, I've looked through the transcripts available at the NASA web site and am still looking for onboard transcripts fro prelaunch up to launch. There are PAO...

This newsgroup has been moribund to say the least. So thought I'd prime the pump a bit. SpaceX's approach to the recoverable rocket problem is an interesting...

"Stupendous_Man" wrote in message ... You can see some photographs taken by...